Moscow City Council Votes 3-2 Against WalMart Supercenter Rezone

Carl Westberg says:

May 16, 2006 at 4:04 pm

I don’t know, Joan, according to some, this means Moscow is doomed, doomed, I tell you. We’re gonna turn into another Bovill. We’re doomed, doomed, I tell you. Or not. I second Joan’s “amen”.

consumer says:

May 16, 2006 at 4:32 pm

Thank goodness we’ve been saved from lower prices. Aaron, Bob, and John may not have to pay the small retailer prices but many of us do. Carl…do you own a business that can’t compete with Wal-mart or are you just bandwagon?

JW says:

May 16, 2006 at 6:28 pm

It is refreshing to see a town where the developers and giant corporations don’t control everything. Moscow isn’t a real liberal place either, instead it is an area where people care about their community and want to keep it a nice place to live. Conservative and liberals working together for a better tomorrow…. Hmm,the rest of Idaho could learn a thing or two from Latah County and Moscow.

Phil says:

May 17, 2006 at 9:11 pm

I’m not a big fan of Wal-Mart, but as I recall everyone said that downtown Moscow was going to dry up and wither when the Wal-Mart out on the Pullman Highway opened. Yet, last time I was in Moscow the downtown was thriving.

Most people I talk to down there who like to shop at Wal-Mart will still shop there… They’ll simply take their money into Pullman to shop at that Supercenter.

Last time I was in Hodgkin’s Drugstore in downtown Moscow, everything (and I do mean everything) was overpriced. No wonder everyone wants to shop at Wal-Mart.

pete geddes says:

May 18, 2006 at 8:53 pm

It’s fashionable in some circles to believe that the uncultured masses make the wrong decisions and purchase goods they really don’t need. The bumper sticker of this movement proclaims: “Mall-Wart: Your Source for Cheap Plastic Crap.”

Must our citizens be protected from their shortsighted fixation on such trivial matters as lower prices, convenience, and selection?

Beware our “betters” who pretend to know how others should live and work. Their attempts to impose their preferences over the choices of other individuals is neither fair nor democratic.

Michael says:

May 19, 2006 at 8:11 pm

Personally I think this is the wrong decision. Whatever happened to a free market economy? WallMart does not carry many specialty items that can be found in smaller boutique stores. There is room for both in town, but I fail to understand why non-competitive businesses require protection when it comes in the form of the City Council effectively endorsing and supporting overinflated prices in local stores.

007 says:

May 21, 2006 at 3:39 am

Kudos to Moscow and the elected officials. While it’s fabulous that the town has successfully thwarted WM efforts, it puts additional tensions in the battle over here in Pullman, WA. A Supercenter is coming, but where? Bishop Blvd? The corridor??